No evidence that MMR vaccine is associated with autism or bowel disease
...ociated with small, similar risks of self limiting fever within three weeks of vaccination. However, measles itself causes acute fever in all infected children. MMR additionally protects against mumps and rubella, which themselves caus...Stem cell transplants may be effective for MS patients
...months after the transplant. And one patient had a fever with no known cause soon after the transplant and, as a result, worsened by one point on the disability scale....American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April (first issue)
...es, which were performed in the hospital, was high fever inthree patients. The authors said that there was a close relationship between the level of pathogens found in the lower airways and the level of inflammatory cells and mediators. Thestudy appears in the first issue for April of the American Thorac...Quality of health information on the internet has improved
...n 1997, the quality of web information on managing fever in children at home was assessed and was found to be poor. Four years later, researchers in Italy re-evaluated the quality of these web pages, plus a more recent sample of pages, using the same methods. They found 19 of the 41 (46%) original pages st...Steroid nasal spray more effective against hay fever
...my study that lasted two weeks during the 2000 hay fever season in Chicago. The patients were matched for allergy severity and divided into two groups. One group (29) received fluticasone once a day, plus placebo pills. The other group (31) received a placebo nasal spray plus loratadine and montelukast...Fever immediately after heart bypass surgery associated with cognitive decline
...nd written off the fact that many patients develop fever shortly after coronary bypass surgery, a new Duke University Medical Center study shows that these fevers are associated with measurable cognitive decline six weeks following surgery. Specifically, the researchers found a relationship between the...Science, engineering and technology newstips
...nt of "cat scratch" disease, usually causes a mild fever in humans but can be serious or fatal in patients with a weakened immune system. "At the least we can say that ticks carry Bartonella DNA and could be potential vectors," said Bruno Chomel, professor of veterinary medicine at the University of Calif...Mayo Clinic discovers cause of a frequently fatal myasthenic syndrome affecting children
...ow. Episodes are often preceded by undue exertion, fever or excitement but also can occur spontaneously or during the night. As children grow older, the episodes become less frequent and milder, and are rarely fatal after age 15. The condition is hereditary and more than one child in a family can have the ...European commission grants "orphan" status for new acute myeloid leukaemia treatment
...targ can produce a postinfusion symptom complex of fever and chills, and less commonly hypotension and dyspnea during the first 24 hours after administration. Vital signs should be monitored during infusion and for four hours following infusion. Some patients developed severe liver function abnormalities,......like side effects, such as muscle pains, headache, fever and chills, over the course of therapy, and they may also show reduced white blood cells. The comparison vaccine used in E1694, GMK, contains an antigen called GM2, which has been shown to stimulate the immune system to produce antibodies against t...Silver-coated catheters cut infections & may save money, analysis finds
...ly, UTIs can cause bleeding during urination, high fever and accompanying abdominal and back pain. Worse yet is bacteremia, in which the bacteria enter the bloodstream and can cause fever, low blood pressure, confusion and life-threatening symptoms. The risk of an infection, and the potential for a more ...Guidelines recommend EEG to evaluate children's first nonfebrile seizure
...n who experience a first seizure in the absence of fever or obvious precipitating cause should receive an EEG evaluation, according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society. They are published in the September 12 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of...UI study: first-generation antihistamine has more impact than alcohol on driving performance
...ying the driving performance of people who had hay fever and were given diphenhydramine (Benadryl), fexofen...ed 40 licensed drivers, ages 25 to 44, who had hay fever -- allergies to ragweed pollen -- and who had previously used antihistamines to treat the condition....Duke geneticists unraveling the tangled web of autism
... underlying genetic and biochemical cause, just as fever is now classified based on what caused it, whether it be bacterial, viral, etc. This has fundamental implications in that it could lead to a new and possibly different classification of psychiatric disorders and new treatment approaches that may be m...Southeast appears to have a unique type of Lyme disease
...d can cause flulike symptoms of malaise, headache, fever and muscle soreness. Left untreated, it also can lead to more serious secondary problems including arthritis, nerve palsy, meningitis and heart arrhythmias. Researchers found no evidence that the disease progressed to the second stage in any of the ......ays. Tell-tale symptoms of meningitis include high fever and severe, sudden headache. These often are accompanied by such complaints as stiff neck, nausea, vomiting, mental changes and a rash. According to Dr. Arditi, 3,000 new cases of meningococcal infection cause about 300 deaths per year in the United ...Yale and state researchers develop improved test for new tick disease
...Disease, causes flu-like symptoms suchas headache, fever and muscle cramps. But unlike Lyme disease, Ehrlichia equidoes not produce a bull's eye rash, which makes it more difficult to diagnose,said Dr. IJdo, a physician-scientist. Another problem hampering diagnosis is that testing for ehrlichiosi...... living onfarms were 3 times less sensitive to hay fever than those living in a non-ruralenvironment (3.1% compared with 10.3%).In the case of asthma, the ratio was even more pronounced: 1.1% compared with3.9%.Reactions to skin prick tests were about twice less frequent (18.8% against32.7%) for farm childr...OHSU researchers test medication that targets fever without side effects
...ofecoxib. The testing showed that the drug reduced fever without appearing toaffect other important body fu...ctions. To come to this conclusion, patients with fever were solicited throughadvertisements. Some subjects were given the drug rofecoxib, other patientsrec......(grade 3 and 4) infusion-relatedsymptoms included: fever (13%), rigors (11%), dyspnea (6%), and hypotension (1%). Duringthe study patients developed severe (grade 3 and 4) thrombocytopenia (low plateletcount, 51%) or neutropenia (low white blood cell count, 61%) that usually improvedwithin two months post...